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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:37:15 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stefani@...bold.net, jkosina@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove untouched code in kfifo_in

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> In kfifo_in marco, one piece of code is arounded by if(0). This code in
> introduced by Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> to suppress a compiler
> warning. This warning is not there with the upgrade of gcc version.
>
> This patch just remove this code.

Are you sure?
This code fragment looks like a compiler bomb to detect type mismatch to me...

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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